Nike Apex Explained: Can Nike’s Zero Drop Super Shoe Beat the Adidas Evo 3?
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Elvis Cheboi and Maritu Ketema Head the Latest Additions to the Toronto Waterfront Marathon Field
Cheboi, the 2023 champion, beat Gizealew Ayana by four seconds in Ottawa in May and meets him again on Oct. 18, while Ketema’s 2:21:52 leaves her 68 seconds off the women’s course record.
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Lucia Stafford Wins the First Bloor Street Mile Faster Than She Ran at Worlds
The two-time Olympian signed up only a few days before the race and ran 4:23 in Toronto on Sunday, eight days after her 4:29.51 placed her eighth at the World Road Running Championships in Copenhagen.
Race Coverage
Denver’s Taco Bell 50K Returns Saturday With 10 Stops and a Strict No-Puking Rule
The ninth edition starts at 7:30 a.m. on South Broadway, where runners have 11 hours to cover 31 miles and eat at nine Taco Bells, in a race that had only 40 starters three years ago.
Trail and Ultras
Eliud Kipchoge Named Global Ambassador for the Dakar Youth Olympic Games
The 41-year-old will mentor the first Refugee Olympic Team to compete at a Youth Olympics when the Games open in Senegal on Oct. 31, less than three weeks after his next marathon in Melbourne.
Elite Runners
Nike Unveils the Apex, a Zero-Drop Super Shoe Meant to Be an Adidas Pro Evo 3 Killer
The shoe stacks 40 mm of cushioning under both the heel and forefoot, and it drops just days after the Adidas Pro Evo 3 swept the podiums in Berlin.
Michael Doyle
Grandma’s Marathon Sells Out for 2027 in Under Three Hours
All 8,000 marathon places in Duluth were gone in 174 minutes on Thursday night, and the half-marathon filled in 58, both race records.
Race Coverage
Nike Expects Its Sales to Shrink This Fiscal Year
Nike now forecasts a high-single-digit drop in revenue through May 2027 and has launched Pace, a restructuring it says will save $2.5 billion by fiscal 2031. First-quarter sales fell 4 percent to $11.2 billion.
Brands and Gear News
The Copenhagen Half Marathon Lottery Drew More Than 188,000 Entries for 2027
There are 45,000 places for the Sept. 19, 2027 race, which gives each applicant roughly a one-in-four chance, and the first names drawn will hear on Oct. 5.
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